PUBLISHERS OF LITERARY FICTION SINCE 1983
Antonio Pennacchi spent most of his life in Latina outside Rome, where he was born in 1950.He died 3 August 2021, aged 71. For most of his life he worked on the nightshift of a local factory before his success as a writer allowed him to leave. His first novel Il Fasciocommunista (2003) won the Premio Napoli and was turned into a major feature film. His second novel The Mussolini Canal (2010) won The Strega Prize and has been one of the most successful literary novels published in Italy in recent years.